The Crown report proposed that new groups of healthcare professionals, including pharmacists, should be permitted to prescribe medicines, after a diagnosis has been made by a doctor and a clinical management plan drawn up for the patient,1 This dependent prescribing has come to be termed 'supplementary prescribing'.2 Although many pharmacists work as part of a multidisciplinary care team, providing therapeutic advice and 'prescribing by proxy', the responsibility and accountability that this involves are different from those that will result from supplementary prescribing. This study focuses on the views and experiences of pharmacists during the transition period when they moved towards acting as supplementary prescribers, with a focus on their perceptions of changing roles, responsibilities and accountability.
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